Ku Klux Klan (24 Dez 1865 Jahr – 1 Jan 1871 Jahr)

Beschreibung:

Cause:

1. Southern Whites organized secret societies to intimidate blacks and white reformers

Effect:

1. burned black-owned buildings
2. flogged and murdered freedmen to keep them from exercising their voting rights
3. Congress passed Force Acts of 1870 and 1871 to stop KKK violence and protect civil rights of citizens in the South

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